Setup udev rules with Red Hat 5/6 on VMware
May 16, 2013 Leave a Comment
To work on VMware Fusion, set the following on the .vmx file; without this entry, the scsi_id command does not return any values by default.
disk.EnableUUID = “TRUE”
Retrieve and generate a unique SCSI identifier with the scsi_id command:
[root@rhel59dra ~]# /sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/sdc
36000c29b80c12910ca4e6a95a1949d8b
[root@rhel59dra ~]# /sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/sdd
36000c29344da4eab5b78409de3706424
[root@rhel59dra ~]# /sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/sde
36000c291cd542d388fdee223fa90ca69
[root@rhel59dra ~]# /sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/sdf
36000c296666187fd5223c0a34ca52f71
Add entries to a custom udev rules file
[root@rhel59dra ~]# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/99-oracle-asmdevices.rules
KERNEL==”sd?1″, BUS==”scsi”, PROGRAM==”/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/$parent”, RESULT==”36000c29b80c12910ca4e6a95a1949d8b”, NAME=”ASMOCR01″, OWNER=”oracle”, GROUP=”dba”, MODE=”0660″
KERNEL==”sd?1″, BUS==”scsi”, PROGRAM==”/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/$parent”, RESULT==”36000c29344da4eab5b78409de3706424″, NAME=”ASMOCR02″, OWNER=”oracle”, GROUP=”dba”, MODE=”0660″
KERNEL==”sd?1″, BUS==”scsi”, PROGRAM==”/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/$parent”, RESULT==”36000c291cd542d388fdee223fa90ca69″, NAME=”ASMOCR03″, OWNER=”oracle”, GROUP=”dba”, MODE=”0660″
KERNEL==”sdf[0-9]“, BUS==”scsi”, PROGRAM==”/usr/bin/udevinfo -q name -p %p”, RESULT==”%k”, PROGRAM==”scsi_id -g -u -d /dev/$parent”, RESULT==”36000c296666187fd5223c0a34ca52f71″, NAME=”ASMDATA0%n”, OWNER=”oracle”, GROUP=”dba”, MODE=”0660″
Note:
For disks with multiple partitions, the syntax in the udev rules are different.
KERNEL==”sd[c-z]1″, BUS==”scsi”, PROGRAM=”/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%P”, RESULT==”3*”, NAME=”ASM%c”, OWNER=”oracle”, GROUP=”dba”, MODE=”0660″
To make sure that udev rules work:
[root@rhel59dra ~]# udevtest /block/sdc/sdc1
[root@rhel59dra ~]# udevtest /block/sdd/sdd1
[root@rhel59dra ~]# udevtest /block/sde/sde1
[root@rhel59dra ~]# udevtest /block/sdf/sdf1
[root@rhel59dra ~]# udevtest /block/sdf/sdf2
[root@rhel59dra ~]# udevtest /block/sdf/sdf3
[root@rhel59dra ~]# udevtest /block/sdf/sdf4
Restart udev rules:
RHEL 5: /sbin/udevcontrol reload_rules
RHEL 6: /sbin/udevadm control –reload-rules
/sbin/start_udev
Verify that proper devices are created
[root@rhel59dra ~]# ls -l /dev/ASM*
brw-rw—- 1 oracle dba 8, 81 May 15 23:45 /dev/ASMDATA01
brw-rw—- 1 oracle dba 8, 82 May 15 23:45 /dev/ASMDATA02
brw-rw—- 1 oracle dba 8, 83 May 15 23:45 /dev/ASMDATA03
brw-rw—- 1 oracle dba 8, 84 May 15 23:45 /dev/ASMDATA04
brw-rw—- 1 oracle dba 8, 33 May 15 23:45 /dev/ASMOCR01
brw-rw—- 1 oracle dba 8, 49 May 15 23:45 /dev/ASMOCR02
brw-rw—- 1 oracle dba 8, 65 May 15 23:45 /dev/ASMOCR03